The Lovejoy Columns

The Peaches and Bats 4 launch party in Portland on Thursday flexed poetry's ancient muscle as an aide to Mnemosyne. Jesse Morse used sonnet-length anagrams built from the letters in "Eric Chavez" to restore his favorite Oakland 'A' from the limbo of the injured list to the Elysium of obsessive fan recall, with the caveat I guess that sports heroes are always just magnified analogues for us. Sam Lohmann evoked broken New Year's resolutions and landscapes that incessantly negotiate their own disap